Article 72 of comp.sys.cdc: Path: matra.meer.net!news.neumedia.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!132.205.106.4!newsflash.concordia.ca!not-for-mail From: craig@vax2.concordia.ca (Craig Buchanan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: Reminiscing About the Cyber 6600 Date: 5 May 1997 17:48:33 GMT Organization: Computing Services - Concordia University Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <01bc567d$25cfb000$7a59e1cc@default> <01bc574e$31a45490$98dc86cd@ntpeh> <336d1093.3819345@news.uni-c.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-cbuchanan.concordia.ca Xref: matra.meer.net comp.lang.fortran:50217 comp.sys.cdc:72 In article <336d1093.3819345@news.uni-c.dk>, peterb@inet.uni-c.dk (Peter Bjoern) wrote: > "phil hystad" wrote: > > >But, this is where the name operating system was NOS/BE was created > >merely by changing the copyright statement in the SCOPE 3.4.5 > >system. And, accordingly, NOS/VE came from Kronos V2.1 (I believe). > > No, No, You're meaning NOS. > NOS/VE has nothing to do with Kronos at all. > NOS/VE is (was) as completely new system that first came > out in 1984. > By many considered the best of all systems. > This has gone off the track of Fortran, but let me reminisce a bit... I think it was as early as 1981 that we (Concordia University) received the first Cyber 800 series computer, a Cyber 835, that came out of Control Data. It was serial number 004 I think. It came out is a shroud of secrecy, we were committed to a non-disclosure agreement. For the first year it was simply known as an updated Cyber 172. At that time its native OS NOS/VE wasn't even available so it was running the old NOS operating system. Some ambitious students claimed that this new machine had a 64 bit word instead of the traditional 60 bit word. They were right but we denied it and had no idea how they figured it out since all the software just addressed 60 bits. The irony of the whole thing is that this first machine never ran NOS/VE, its native os. It was completely replaced about 5 months later by another 835 and later replaced by a dual CPU 830 before we converted to NOS/VE. In the mid 80's Concordia had 3 Cyber 800 systems on campus. We even ran a complete Student Information System on a Cyber, not your normal kind of application for a system that was designed for scientific computations:) By 1991 the last one was sold, I think for scrap. Craig Buchanan Computing Services Concordia University Montreal, Canada